Violence returns to bandh-hit Darjeeling

After alleged 'miscreants' burnt the house of the chairman of the Khas Development Board of the GTA

After a brief lull last week, violence returned to Darjeeling after alleged “miscreants” burnt the house of the chairman of the Khas Development Board of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) followed by the symbolic burning of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s (GJM) copy of the GTA agreement. The party’s leaders said the burning of the agreement symbolises their ardent stand to settle for “nothing less than full-fledged statehood”.

On Tuesday afternoon, GJM leaders, backed by hundreds of agitators, gathered at the centralised Chowk Bazar area in Darjeeling and burnt copies of the GTA accord, which the Centre and the West Bengal government